This report has to do with the investigation into AXA insurance company including internal analysis, external strategic analysis and strategy formulation. It is designed to analyse the whole organisation and make recommendations related to the problems. AXA is a French global investment, retirement and insurance group. The AXA Group involves five operating business segments: Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance (including reinsurance), Asset Management and Other Financial Services. This report is focused on AXA insurance.

The main investigation approach is to use the text book as a secondary resource to analyze the specific theory about PESTLE analysis and Porters Five Forces analysis. At the same time, some useful sources as secondary information are researched from the Internet and some professional theory about external and internal analysis and strategy formulation come from library books.

Through the investigation, there are four main parts related, but each part has detailed contents around different topics. The first part will introduce the company summary. PESTLE analysis, industry life cycle, Porters Five Forces analysis and key competitors will be introduced in the second part. After that, the report will show internal analysis including value chain and SWOT analysis. Finally, the part will focus on strategy formulation and making recommendations respectively.

After a full strategic analysis of both the external and internal factors affecting the business, it is clear that there are key drivers in the markets. These drivers are customers' need, differentiated products and quick response to new technology. Consumers are becoming more price sensitive and eager to locate the best deals on the market. These are the areas that the business needs to focus on and develop in the future.

Based on the findings of this report, it is clear that AXA has a dominant position in the market. However there are a few points could be improved, and profits could be potentially increased if the business implemented a number of recommendations. The recommendations are to continue the expansion into international markets, improve and develop its products, develop more complete marketing systems and take new technology into consideration. Carrying out these recommendations would result in having a larger consumer base and an increase in profits.

...STRATEGICANALYSIS OF
K.L. DUGAR GROUP
SUBMITTED TO:
Mr. Mukunda Adhikari
SUBMITTED BY:
SAKET AGARWAL
ROSHAN MALIK ZARGAR
UPENDRA PRATAP SINGH
(7TH SEMESTER)
13TH JUNE, 2013
Acknowledgements
This report has helped us to gain knowledge about the strategic planning and analysis of K.L.Dugar. So, indebted to K.L. Dugar , a reputed industry , which provided us all necessary data and various suggestion.
We sincerely express my thanks to the staff of K.L. Dugar for their valuable suggestion, information and co-operation for the preparation of this report with those co-operations this study would not have been complete.
We also grateful to the management and library of Alpine Management College and also to my friend for their support while preparing this report.
Finally we would like to acknowledge and express our gratitude to respected instructor Mr. Mukunda Adhikari for giving this opportunity to face the practical scenario of the industry.
1. INTRODUCTION
With the immense competition and the globalization the business world has become very complex and dynamic in nature. A slight mistake of a business person can lead that company to close down. Customers are becoming intelligent and very concern about the brand, quality, standardization, health and different offers and price before buying any product or services. It is now becoming very difficult to retain the customers as they switches to other...

...
Explain why strategicanalysis is necessary in the process of developing an appropriate strategy. Identify tools that are available to examine the external environment and discuss how and why they are used.
Introduction
Strategy is a high level plan in which to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. It is very important because resources available to achieve these goals are usually limited. Strategy is often the difference between mediocrity and excellence.
Strategies exist at several levels in any organisation as stated above - ranging from the overall business through to individuals working in it.
Corporate Strategy- is concerned with the overall purpose of the business to meet stakeholder expectations and needs. This is a crucial level since it is heavily influenced by investors in the business and acts to guide decision-making throughout the business.
Business Unit Strategy- is concerned more with how a business competes successfully in a particular market. It concerns decisions about choice of products, meeting needs of customers, gaining advantage over competitors, exploiting or creating new opportunities etc.
Operational Strategy- is concerned with how each part of the business is organised to deliver the corporate and business-unit level strategic direction. Operational strategy therefore focuses on issues of resources, processes, people etc....

...pharmaceutical companies in United Kingdom that continues to traverse the competitive and challenging pharmaceutical industry. This report gives insight on the analysis of the strategies used by GlaxoSmithKline (vaccines and medicine business unit) to be able to sustain its performance in the pharmaceutical industry. This report applies PESTLE model, Porter’s five-force model, and Value chain analysis as well as the SWOT analysis tools environment facing the company. The reports assess performance of GSK Company amid the economic downturns. Based on the findings, GSK has been able to harness its potential, in efforts of enhancing competitiveness in its production of medicines and vaccine, notwithstanding environmental forces affecting the company. This report has also identified challenges that GSK has experienced over the years. In particular, GSK is faced by challenging; political, social and economic environments that has affected its position in the competitive pharmaceuticals market. However, there is need for GSK to incorporate strategies focused at leveraging its performance, to ensure it remains relevant in the market.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u 1. Introduction PAGEREF _Toc402358202 \h 12. External Environmental Analysis on Vaccine and Medicine Production PAGEREF _Toc402358203 \h 12.1 PESTLE Analysis PAGEREF _Toc402358204 \h 12.1.1 Political Factors PAGEREF _Toc402358205 \h...

...﻿3
Content
Introduction 2
SWOT Analysis 3
Porter’s Five Forcers Models of Competition 4
PESTEL Analysis 5
External Factors Evaluation (EFE) 7
Internal Factors Evaluation (IFE) 8
Competitive Profile Matrix 8
Matching 9
TOWS Matrix 9
IE 10
SPACE Matrix 10
Boston Consulting Group Matrix 11
The General Electric Business Screen Matrix 12
Grand Strategy Matrix 12
Decision Stage - Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix 13
Conclusion 14
References 14
Introduction1
Grupo Bimbo is one of the largest companies in the world and one of the baking companies Largest food in the Americas , with a diversified portfolio of approximately 10,000 products and more than 100 brands.
The Company is engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of sliced ​​bread, sweet bread, pastry homemade type , cookies , cereal bars , sweets, chocolates , sweets and salty snacks , flour tortillas wheat toast, caramel and fast food , among others.
Through the development of brands, fresh produce and quality and continuous innovation, the Group has earned a share of market leadership in bakery products in the U.S., Mexico, in most Latin American countries in which it operates and in Spain and Portugal.
The Group operates in 19 countries including USA, Mexico, Latin America, Spain, Portugal and China. At December 31st 2012, the Group operated 154 manufacturing facilities worldwide, with a capacity to produce commercial quantities of a variety of...

...weaknesses, however, are their support activities not being rare in the industry except for the human resource management. Some strategic options recommended to exploit opportunities and defend against threats are merger and acquisition as well as backward integration through the procurement of raw material suppliers.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Grand Metropolitan is a multinational conglomeration established in England founded by Maxwell Joseph. The company went public in 1961 on the London Stock Exchange and later merged with Guinness in 1997 to form Diageo.
They initially operated in hospitality industry but later on expanding their markets into several industries but mainly focusing on food and beverage. Grand Metropolitan first entered the food and beverage industry through the purchase of Bateman Catering and Midland Catering in 1967 and 1968 respectively. Other major acquisitions include The Pillsbury Company, Smirnoff, and Ligett.
The first part of the assignment is going to analyze the external and internal factors that could have an impact on Grand Metropolitan’s business and suggest strategic options to combat their competitors. Deeper analysis on the strategic implementations is going to be discussed further in the second part.
2. External Analysis
2.1. PEST Analysis on the Five Forces...

...Strategic Management
Huawei Case Analysis
Huawei: Cisco’s Chinese Challenger
Introduction
By this case analysis, some basic points are going to be mentioned like current strategies used by
Huawei, its challenges and issues, the situational analysis, and its competitive strategies used
and new strategies adopted for its improvement. Before getting to discuss those points, we need
to know some background about Huawei in order to gain its familiarity to the case.
Background information
It’s the fact that Huawei is the second-largest telecommunication equipment company in the
world by its revenue and its offices are scattered over 140 countries all over the world. Huawei is
expected to soon become the largest one in the world. It’s a Chinese multinational networking
and telecommunication equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, China.
This company was founded by ex-military officer Ren Zhengfei in 1988 as a distributor for
phone switches and formed as a private company owned by its employees. It is now a
comprehensive telecommunication company with network equipment, mobile broadband devices,
handsets, and convergence devices. Its core missions are to build telecommunications networks.
In addition, it has over 140000 employees worldwide.
Gaining Familiarity
Huawei was incorporated in 1988 as a private enterprise manufacturing telecommunication
equipment for local Chinese companies at a fraction of...